Two of my favorite quotes are by Paul Bowles and Thoreau:
"He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The
difference was partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist
generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the
traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly,
over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. [A]nother
important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former
accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who
compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to
his liking."
— Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)
"In the morning I
bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the
Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its
literature seem puny and trivial."--Walden, Henry David Thoreau
